Black cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Bumping to spine ends and light edge toning to pages. Otherwise internally in near fine condition with pages free from marks or inscriptions. Edge wear to jacket. Please see images for details and feel free to request further information.
Doubleday: 2005 First Edition
Synopsis: Eighteen-year-old Ram Mohammed Thomas is in prison after answering twelve questions correctly on a TV quiz show to win one billion rupees. The producers have arrested him, convinced that he has cheated his way to victory. Twelve extraordinary events in street-kid Ram's life - how he was found in a dustbin by a priest; came to have three names; fooled a professional hitman; even fell in love - give him the crucial answers. In his warm-hearted tale lies all the comedy, tragedy, joy and pathos of modern India.